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So I've tested the long-term kernel 6.12.64 on my Xenial system and tested 6.19.0-rc5 on my Mate and Debian systems. All tests proved successful with no obvious issues in logs or in use. Aside from age of systems, differences would be that Xenial and Mate boot with a ram disk, while Debian does not.

Hypex wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 4:21 am So I've tested the long-term kernel 6.12.64 on my Xenial system and tested 6.19.0-rc5 on my Mate and Debian systems. All tests proved successful with no obvious issues in logs or in use. Aside from age of systems, differences would be that Xenial and Mate boot with a ram disk, while Debian does not.

Hi Hypex,

Thanks a lot for testing the RC5 of kernel 6.19 and for testing the stable long-term kernel 6.12.64.

Cheers,
Christian

Hypex,

Can you shut down your X1000 with all distributions using the RC5 of kernel 6.19?

Thanks,
Christian

Preparation of the PowerPC kernel cross-compiling container and the kernel test container with Docker Compose for the stable long-term kernel 6.12.65: YouTube

Another server: YouTube

Hi All,

I released the stable long-term kernel 6.12.65 today.

New:

• Linux Git log

Download of the kernel package, the docker compose.yaml and the dockerfiles: github.com

Monitoring the Docker containers while compiling and testing the kernel:



Cheers,
Christian

xeno74 wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 7:04 pm Hypex,

Can you shut down your X1000 with all distributions using the RC5 of kernel 6.19?

Thanks,
Christian

Hi. So I tested shutting down kernel 6.19 RC5, four times in a row. With Fienix, Mate, Mint and Debian. All tests passed and it shut down on each distro. First time in a while I've intentionally shut it down then turned it on again, all in a row.

For fun I thought I would test the RC5 on Xenial. But that turned out to be a "bad mistake pal." It actually started booting and then for some reason got stuck on the SATA. It kept getting SATA errors and tried to reset the bus. It was acting as if the cable fell out.

I shut it down and up again. My drive made a strange sound then CFE immediately dropped to CLI with a memory error. I tried the menu command by hand then AmigaBoot loaded fine. However, I tried to boot my Precise, which was in working order that I use for an emergency backup, and that then also was giving SATA errors! I don't know what it is. It was like the constant shut down and turn on overheated the drive or SATA controller. I'll see how it is tonight. Strange!

Hypex,

Thank you for testing.

Cheers,
Christian

xeno74 wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 12:59 pm Hi All,

I released the stable long-term kernel 6.12.65 today.

So installed this on my Xenial and it is working fine. The last one didn't last long. With these frequent updates the meaning of long term will be lost.

Maybe I'll try shutting it down as well.

So just for fun I tried booting Xenial with the 6.19. RC5 kernel again. Booted fine! Made some complaint about fsck and mount options but apart from that it worked fine. No idea why the hardware suddenly broke last night. I even shut it down and that worked! These machines make no sense.

Hypex wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 4:25 pm So installed this on my Xenial and it is working fine.

Thanks for testing the stable long-term kernel 6.12.65.

New for the kernel 6.19.0-rc6:

• Linux 6.19-rc6 Released With More Bug Fixes -- phoronix.com
• 6.19-rc6 announcement
• PCI fix
• DRM fixes
• SCSI fixes
• NVMe fixes
• MM fixes (including PowerPC fix)
• XFS fixes
• BTRFS fixes
• Ext4 fixes
• Sound fixes (including USB-audio and HD-audio fixes)
• Networking fixes (including VirtIO-net updates)
• NFS client fixes
• USB fixes
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.19